Summary: An exclusive 57 collage piece by new signing, Chris Herbert was broadcast on Resonance FM recently. The brief was to construct something from field recordings and what came about was a patchwork made from a series of 'sound walks' around the canals close to where Chris works. "This proved to be an almost overwhelming resource - as a city that flourished during the industrial revolution, Birmingham is criss-crossed by waterways and by becoming a lunchtime flaneur I attempted to capture a snapshot of the tragic beauty of these rusting arteries. Just yards from my office I found weird, alien lacunas of nature set against light industrial units, the robust good humour of panel beaters against a backdrop of local radio, the gentle throb of narrow boats, leaking locks and septic lakes."
